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Eugene Villaluz has been making beautiful music with the angels in heaven these past seven years. But he has been unable to ...
Johnny Paycheck was trying not to get disheartened by a long line of near-hits when he finally released what would become his first and only No. 1 song in the fall of 1977. Paycheck (born Donald ...
If there’s anything that defines music in the 21st century, it’s constant change. We live in an era when your next favorite song could come from anywhere — all over the stylistic map, all over the ...
In the middle of the night on Nov. 5, 1960, Johnny “Battle of New Orleans” Horton’s premonition of dying at the hands of a drunk came true on a dark highway in Central Texas.
Five years ago today, one of the most important and underappreciated songwriters of the Outlaw Country movement died.
After hitting No. 1 with “Voodoo,” the genre-melding 2000 album that he promoted with a risqué music video, he vanished for more than a decade. D’Angelo in 2000. He found fame with an innovative, ...
D’Angelo, whose cool tunes and one hot music video turned him a legend of neo-soul, has died, according to a statement from his family. He was 51. “The shining star of our family has dimmed his light ...
See which Missy Elliot hit took the top spot. As the quarter-mark of the 21st century rapidly approaches, Rolling Stone is taking a look back at the last 25 years of music. On Wednesday, the outlet ...
Have you ever been ambushed by an irresistibly catchy tune? One minute you're driving or working, the next a tune like Wannabe by the Spice Girls comes on the radio, and suddenly you're a full-on pop ...
It was put to John Lodge a couple of years ago that, given his contributions to the band and subsequent works on his own, he was the true rock 'n' roller in the Moody Blues. His response; "I think so, ...
Travis Kelce couldn’t help but play coy when asked how he feels about his fiancée, Taylor Swift, writing a raunchy song about him. “‘Wood.’ Great, great soundtrack,” Jason Kelce told his brother while ...
One year before Johnny Cash’s death, he recorded an unexpected song that served as an especially poignant farewell. In 2002, the music legend known as The Man in Black recorded a cover of the 1994 ...